Composer Returns to His Roots

By

Dennis Nishi

Updated July 14, 2009 3:59 p.m. ET

As a child in 1976, Boris Zelkin emigrated with his family to Brooklyn from what was then the Soviet Union. He learned to play piano; his teachers said he was gifted. Today, he scores music for film and sports broadcasts such as Wimbledon and the Stanley Cup playoffs. Edited interview excerpts follow:

The Wall Street Journal: You moved to Los Angeles in 1992. How did you break into entertainment?